On Mon, Feb 02, 2009 at 12:50:38PM -0800, David Miller wrote: > I'm pretty certain it's call_usermodehelper() that's hanging. > > Perhaps something with forking kernel threads or invoking exec > is failing on sparc64 on your machine for some reason. Looks like you are right: > tail console20090203.txt Doing kobject_set_name() kset_register() kset_register: kset_init() kset_register: kset_add_internal() kset_register: kobject_uevent() kobject_uevent_env: [of] fffff8a1fe00c6d8 kobject_uevent_env: Checking uevent_ops->filter kobject_uevent_env: Allocating and filling env buffer. kobject_uevent_env: Checking uevent_ops->uevent kobject_uevent_env: Invoking uevent_helper[/sbin/hotplug] Please look also at the full console output at http://www.iwr.uni-heidelberg.de/ftp/linux/sparc-boot/console20090203.txt as there are some "attempted to send uevent without kset!" and similar messages. Maybe it's important that this is a two cpu machine (as a similar 6 cpu machine seems to work, see other report on the list) ? Thanks. -- Netzwerkadministration/Zentrale Dienste, Interdiziplinaeres Zentrum fuer wissenschaftliches Rechnen der Universitaet Heidelberg IWR; INF 368; 69120 Heidelberg; Tel: (06221)54-8236 Fax: -5224 Email: Hermann.Lauer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe sparclinux" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
